San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-09-05
EDITORIAL BREVITIES.

LAREDO claims the baseball champ
lOnship of the gulf coast.
The Plttsburg trades unions, In order
to show their lighting strength, turned
out In an Immense parade last Saturday,
fully 1900 men being in line.
NEARLY all the schools-public, pri-
vate, secular and denOminational-are
in session in this city, and there are
5000 children Of school age not provided
for.
WACO now poses as the 'deluge
city" and claims to take the bakery
from all watery competitors as far back
as the days OF Noah.
THAT Fort Worth special policeman
was bound over in 500 for carrying a
shooter. The pepper must go. A spec
isl policeman must get along with a
billy-billy goat or billetdouX?
The states OF CostaRico and Nicaragua
have set an example to older govern
ments and settled their border line diff
Guilty amicsbly. The boundary will be
fixed by srbltrators.
| YELLOW FEVER is raging at Havana
and other Cuban ports. Quarantine,
rigid and general, all along our gulf and
ocean coasts Is the only etfeCtual rem
edy
THE squatter sovereignty, Of which so
much was heard In Douglas time, comes
up smiling In Missouri, and the settlers
are making rush in the name OF the
old watchword upon the forfeited rail-
way lands in that state.
THE Henrietta bank will now open Its
doors again for the transaction OF bust
ness, the arrangement occasioned by
the defalcatiOn of its officers being but
temporary.
IT is said that the county commission
ers are waiting to hear the pile driver
drop announcing the location OF the city
hall, before they take steps determining
the site OF the new county courthouse.
The entries for the Dallas fair, In the
horse department. have already ex-
hausted the stall room. and the manage
ment must increase the number of stalls
or curtsil the horses. This speaks vol
umes for the success OF the fair, which
Ia yet two months In the future.
BAYARD expresses satisfaction at the
proposed meeting of the British and
Canadian fish commissioners in Wash
ington. II Baysrd displays no more
scumen than usual he will be landed as
q sucker without bait.
News of the nationalists meeting it
Ennis will be awaited with no little con-
Germ by Irish Americans on this side the
water. This Ia the skirmish Of the
coercion bill war outside the walls OF
| commons.
THE competition for prizes at Bell
vue rifle range opens today. Last weeks
practice WAS for teams by departments,
and by that score were the places for the
final contest decided. Texas gets four
places out Of the first fourteen.
EVEN the democratic journals are be-
ginning to speak Of doubtful southern
states in lSSS. Put a pin in the
names of the two Virginias, North Car
Olina and Georgia. and see where the
hole will be in sixteen months from
date.
| DALLAS discounts Waco and Fort
Worth and gets that Alliance head quar-
tiers. This means millions to the capital
commercial of North Texas. 1t carries
a $780, 900 cotton mill in its wake and
other benefits too numerous to mention.
Virgins storm is to wiggle it's wiggle-
waggle across the continent two
weeks from date. Two weeks and
two days from date, Virgins will
be snatched wigless by an outraged
weather clerk and snaked into a knot
hole until the next equinox.
THERE is a sight OF speculation over
the ultimate location OF the city hall,
but every one will know sight more
as to where II will be after the mum.
cipsl boss calls for his writing-table and
writes, saying-"Thus and thus shall il
be, and his servants reply, Amen"
The CastrOville Anvil claims to have
pounded out about 100 per cent. profit
on the original investment. during the
first twelve months of its existence.
The LIGHT cOngratulates the Anvil
upon this result in the hardest year for
business that western Texas has seen In
many days.
The conflictIOns OF the earlier and
later reports of the ChatswOrth dead
are accounted for by Saturdays tele-
gram. Scores OF bodies were quietly
shipped away and not counted in the
sum Of the dead. The first estimate,
l26 dead, seems to be very nearly cor
rect.
STANDARD OIL in order to enrich itself
has robbed the producer at the bung-
hole and stolen from the consumer at
the spigot and the whole business is
paralyZed. Thousands of wells are
shutting down, as the producers get no
money above expenses, the profits going
into the Golfers OF the great pipe COM
pany. Payne's anaconda is insatIate.
LONDON bankers are specializing on
the effect upon American traffic of the
breaking up of the B. and o. Ameri-
can newspaper and mercantile classes are
only dreading the effect of the swallow
ing OF the b. and o. telegraph lines by
the existing mOnOpOlies upon telegraph
rates In this country. The rates, al
ready enormous, will certainly not be
decreased by the present deal.
MILLS does not seriously peril his rep
utation as a political prophet by rising
to remark that Texas will give "Cleve-
land big majority against any republi-
can that can be named" Texas repub-
licans are not expecting a miracle to be
wrought in their behalf, nor do north
ern republicans look for the breaking OF
the solid south along the Rio Grsnde
this innings.
viii be a Good One.